Hope-Full

O Israel, hope in the LORD; for with the LORD there is lovingkindness, and with Him is abundant redemption.  Psalm 130:7  NASB Hope – How long will you hope?  How long before you run out of patience with the Lord?  How long before your once-exuberant expectation turns to disappointment, then discouragement, then anger?  How long…

THE IRENE EXPLOSION

Well, we did it!  Thanks to your support for Irene, her world has changed forever.  And YOU DID IT! Just before I left for the aircraft carrier, I started getting dozens of emails from all over the world asking about Irene.  This was quite perplexing since, as you know, we started the fund for Irene…

Too Much Italics

My soul waits for the LORD more than the watchmen for the morning.  Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning.  Psalm 130:6  NASB Waits/ Indeed, more than – Everything I have highlighted in bold in the NASB translation has been added to the text.  In fact, you will find similar additions in the KJV,…

The Solid Rock

I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope.  Psalm 130:5  ESV Hope – Psalm 130 is a cry to the Lord from the depths of despair.  It’s not despair over the external circumstances of life.  It’s despair over the chaos of disobedience, of sin at the center of who…

Ship Ahoy!

I am back from a week on the John C. Stennis.  Here’s are just two images of what I saw with my one and only lovely daughter.  She is the only female in her ordinance shop. Obviously, I now have a lot to catch up on.  I’ll try to add to the comments, but I…

Ignoring the Greek Text

in speaking of the new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete.  And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.  Hebrews 8:13  ESV New – There is probably no verse more loudly proclaimed by those that assert the pre-eminence of the dispensation of grace than this one.  George Guthrie’s analysis…

Point-of-View

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through Him.  John 3:17  NASB Should be saved – Why did Yeshua come?  Most believers will say something like, “To save us from our sins,” or “To forgive us so we can go to…

Spring Cleaning

He shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the impurities of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and thus he shall do for the tent of meeting which abides with them in the midst of their impurities.  Leviticus 16:16 NASB Atonement – Are we…

Paradigm Shifts

And they said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”  Luke 24:32  NASB Explaining – Years ago Paul Little wrote a small book called Know Why You Believe.  Like many other evangelical books, its premise…